Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Diez anos

I had just
finished bathing, standing before
the steamed-up mirror
brushing my hair
when it hit me:
the fetus inside the belly
of one of the sisters
whose life was
cut short by the
Nissan Pathfinder
I was driving
would be a child almost 10 years old now
(barring other tragedy)
I gripped the sink, brush
fell to the floor
my head splits and divides
again
my mind detaches from my body
again
how is it possibly possible that
two sisters are gone,
one child never was
and I am still here?




Monday, January 28, 2019

Approaching...fracturing

This is an image I created while on house arrest probably in mid-February, 2009


In 6 days it will be February 3 again.  
This time it's 2019
the 10th anniversary of a fissure 
of a fracture
not like of a bone, like an ankle
or a rib
though that definitely happened too
this was a a cataclysm
that I still don't know how to heal
10 years later